CoCo C. Tin 田智婷 (b. Hong Kong) is a Cantonese designer, writer, and scholar specializing in ecological systems and cross-cultural relations. She is the founder of CO2 PROJECTS, a practice researching regeneration through aquatic media, climate technologies, and new commons.

Her interdisciplinary approach spans Design, Strategy, and Editorial, collaborating with international studios and clients on special projects in luxury fashion, arts & culture, and urban development, including Prada, Miu Miu, WSA, Aspen Art Museum, Canadian Centre for Architecture, OMA/AMO, alongside institutions like Harvard GSD, Princeton SoA, and Cornell AAP. 

Her writing has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, FAR-NEAR, Rumor Review, DISC, Pairs, and other publications. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Architectural Association, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the UN Climate Change Conference, and the Évora Museum.

She holds a post-professional M.Des from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a professional B.Arch from Cornell University AAP, both with Distinction and Awards. 

She currently lives in New York, is Associate Director of Strategy at 2x4, and most recently taught at Yale University.


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Hot Water is Cool: Shanghai’s Tiger Stove Shops 老虎灶

Category: Editorial
Location: New York, US
Year:
2025


An essay on the Chinese traditional of drinking hot water an the now defunct communal Tiger Stove Shops from 20th century Shanghai.

Hot water is an acquired taste. It is brutal, colorless and fickle. Its clarity reveals every floating particle and magnifies every vessel’s blemish. Temperature – boiling hot 開水, hot 熱水, or lukewarm 溫水 – is only revealed when lips touch liquid. The aftertaste of hot water carries the stubborn stain of origin: plumbing infrastructure, energy supply network, and even the heating method and equipment.


Essay by CoCo C. Tin
Photography by Brian Kanagaki
Prop direction by Lulu Yao Gioiello 

FAR - NEAR Volume 6: Heat








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